Hendrina Commelin
Hendrina Hermina Scholten-Commelin was a social worker and feminist. The only daughter of Johannes Commelin and Catharina Cornelia Ouwersloot, she married Casper Willem Reinhard Scholten in Amsterdam on 15 March 1866. The couple had two children: Caspar Wilhelm "Willie" Reinhard and N. N. Scholten. After Willie's death, she and her husband founded the Amsterdam Phytopathological Laboratory in their son's memory. Hendrina is a descendant of botanist Casparus Commelin, founder of the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam.
Household School
Along with Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Hendrina founded the "Amsterdamsche Huishoudschool" in 1890. It was initially intended as a housewife training school for young women, but also served as training for those who would later seek a professional household position. Existing household schools in Belgium and England already visited. The school started in a building on the Prinsengracht. After a few years, Jule Jeltje came to live near the Vondelpark as a backdoor neighbor of Hendrina Scholten. Johannes Scholten bought the land between the two houses and then donated it to the school board of the domestic school. On the plot of land a large school building was built in 1894 by architect C.B. Posthumus Meyjes. This school grew quickly and was visited in 1900 by Queen Wilhelmina with her mother, Regent Emma.In 1974 the building was converted into a youth hoste